Re: apostrophes

From: Jukka K. Korpela (jkorpela@cs.tut.fi)
Date: Tue May 23 2006 - 02:45:23 CDT

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    Adam Twardoch wrote:

    > Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
    >
    >> But if I guess correctly, Czech uses the same quotation marks as
    >> German, whereas Polish uses the same marks as US English.
    >
    > Your guess is incorrect. German and Czech uses „“ while Polish uses „”.
    > All the languages use ’ as apostrophe only.

    My guess was mainly based on the CLDR data that I mentioned:
    http://www.unicode.org/cldr/data/diff/by_type/delimiters.html

    I expected it to have things wrong for Czech and Polish “only” the same
    way as most of the data is wrong, i.e. normal quotation marks and
    alternate (inner) quotation marks are reversed.

    If Polish actually uses „”, then the data is wrong in another way, too,
    and I guess someone who can cite authoritative references should propose
    a correction.



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